Enlarge / An Apple Watch Nike+ Series 4. Getty Images | Wachiwit reader comments 33 with 26 posters participating Share this story Apple will stop storing voice recordings captured by Siri-enabled devices except in cases when users intentionally opt in to the practice. “[B]y default, we will no longer retain audio recordings of Siri interactions,” Apple ..
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Enlarge / France’s President Emmanuel Macron (R) and US President Donald Trump shake hands during a joint press conference in Biarritz, France, on August 26, 2019. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images reader comments 78 with 60 posters participating Share this story The United States and France have reached a deal over the taxation of digital services, French ..
Enlarge / Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (left) with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during this weekend’s G7 summit in France. The Australian government announced the new censorship proposal in conjunction with the gathering. reader comments 206 with 65 posters participating Share this story Australia is working on capabilities to quickly block websites hosting terrorist ..
reader comments 261 with 151 posters participating Share this story Google’s Chrome team is feeling pressure from competitors over ad tracking. Apple has long offered industry-leading protection against tracking cookies, while Mozilla recently announced that Firefox will begin blocking tracking cookies by default. Microsoft has been experimenting with tracking protection features in Edge, too. But ..
reader comments 12 with 11 posters participating Share this story Seven of the nation’s top book publishers sued Amazon subsidiary Audible on Friday, asking federal courts to block the company from releasing a new feature called Audible Captions that’s due out next month. The technology does exactly what it sounds like: display text captions on ..
Enlarge / A drone with an Amazon package floats in front of the Amazon logistics center in Leipzig, Germany, 28 October 2014. Amazon did not comment on whether drones will fuel this default one-day speed boost for paying Amazon Prime subscribers’ deliveries. reader comments 81 with 60 posters participating Share this story Amazon is by ..
reader comments 43 with 38 posters participating Share this story Phone companies and attorneys general from all 50 US states are touting a new agreement to fight robocalls, but it won’t actually do much to help consumers. The top wireless carriers and home phone providers promised attorneys general from every state and the District of ..
Enlarge / Fire damage on the roof of a Walmart store in Indio, California. reader comments 76 with 51 posters participating, including story author Share this story Walmart and Tesla are actively negotiating to resolve the lawsuit Walmart filed against Tesla earlier this week over defective solar panels, the two companies said in a joint ..
reader comments 76 with 57 posters participating Share this story A new broadband mapping system is starting to show just how inaccurate the Federal Communications Commission’s connectivity data is. In Missouri and Virginia, up to 38% of rural homes and businesses that the FCC counts as having broadband access actually do not, the new research ..
Enlarge / They did. Hemera Technologies/Getty Images reader comments 72 with 53 posters participating Share this story Few details have emerged about the coordinated ransomware attack that struck 22 local governments in Texas last week. But five local governments affected by the attack have been identified. On August 20, the Texas Department of Information Resources ..
